The Singapore Heartbeat

Happy Birthday Singapore! This year's National Day feels quite different, probably because school's out for me. I remember when National Day simply meant a half-day school celebration and a public holiday that follows, but this year, I didn't even realise that it was coming until the previous night. I also remember how I used to complain about not having a red shirt in my wardrobe to wear to school since we were 'highly encouraged' to do so, lol. And this year, even though I wasn't asked to, I wore a red top just because I wanted to. :)

... Maroon is also a shade of red ok?!

Kind of miss reciting the pledge every morning.

The speakers were playing some old National Day songs and before I knew it, I was singing along to it. Like omg, I was just suddenly reminded of those days in primary school where we held on to those lyrics booklets and sang for endless assembly sessions before the actual day comes. I heard 'Where I Belong', 'Together', and everyone's all time favourite - 'Home'. :') These old songs are really, the bestestestest, surely I'm not the only one who feels this way! To be honest, I lost track of the new NDP songs before/after 'What Do You See'... not to mention this year's, lol.

Then we came scross this group of Singaporeans and foreigners playing this game (I forgot its name) I played once at one of the Chingay trainings as an ice-breaker game. This... game involving chicks and hens or something? Haha. And gosh, they were having so much among themselves that I just stood there and watched them for a few minutes. Not sure what it was for but I love how these foreigners were totally into it, especially that tall guy wearing a white sleeved shirt with a red jacket tied around his neck, which actually looks more like a red scarf from the front. :D

How precious is this!? (And oh,  white iPad with a red cover? Totally doing it right. :3)

And tadaaaa, here's the highlight of the day (night) - fireworks! Glad we managed to catch it after dinner. They're spectacular, especially when you're watching it with a whole bunch of people, maybe even with the entire country. But what's precious isn't the fireworks, I mean yeah we rarely get that in Singapore compared to other countries but we still get to see it once or twice every year. What's precious to me, was the atmosphere which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :') Don't know why but at that moment I felt so proud to have grown up on this piece of land I was stepping on.

Not trying to be a cheesy-patriotic-model-citizen-wannabe. All I'm trying to say is... I'll probably miss this place a lot when I'm away. I'm not yet sure how much, but I most definitely will. :(

D-20 (approx.) already.
Oh dear :'s